The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1887-06-16

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THE HIRED GIRL. 1t is an expires \
sion common among employers OF
female help that "it is easier to find a
wife than domestic servant" Have
you ever asked yourself the question,
why 1t is that girls do not like to hire
out. II you have not, go into the
country one OF these summer morn
ings-but go early-aud you will find
the hired girl OF the period sitting
under COW in some farmers farn-
yard at four o'clock in the morning
extracting the lacteal fluid from one
of eight or ten cows which have to be
MIXED before breakfast. This Is a
task that only she who Inexperienced
It knows. After taking care of the
milk, she arrives in the kitchen just
in time to see the men sit down to
breakfast. The toll Of the morning
may have sharpened her appetite so
that she could appreciate u bite"
but no she must wait on the table
while the rest eat and then sit down
aud breakfast on the leavings. with
everything cold but the coffee. The
days work is now just begun. Wash
ing, ironing, baking, churning, mend.
ing, scrubbing, interpreted with the
Inevitable question Of "what will we
yet for the next meal" three times II
day, takes up tho time till nine or
ten o'clock each night, only to be RE-
peated next day. The week is ended;
Saturday evening comes. Now what
pay does she get One do lar and O.
hdtf for seven days work OF sixteen
hours each She comes to town
with the family. Though she would
much rather have the hard cash in
hand, she consents to take her wages
, out of the store, and the merchant
may, If he chooses, get his own pric,
out of her Tor his ware, for, knowing
the value of minutes rs she Is taught
it, sho wastes no time in bargaining
Having made her purchase OF piece
Of gaudy colored ribbon for II sash oi
which the merchant had one hundred
} and fifty per cent. profit, she appro
PIRATES the balance rs part paynen
| day shoes" She goes on the stree
! for little promenade. At tho cor
l ner she is met 10y n dried up insippid
5 wenzcn, tripy, female ncquaintnnc
= / II,
e has consented 10 make herself uscfu
@ as well as beautiful, the strut refuse
u to recogn i1e her and turns away wit
} "a naughty toss OF her head. Tn
sting goes to the heart, and the ricl
y red blood shoots into her checks
= Crushed and humiliatcd, She returns
e TO the wagon aud occupies her sea
k long before the family is ready to <
~ home. The rcmombrances of u "Co
a ter's Saturday Night and the bonn
~ luddc from DER the hill, brighten he
q prospects, strengthen her hopes, an
,s she returns home with a full realza
ir tion that there IL, after all, silv,
of lining TO every cloud, for though
10 1--WE may bc poor-Rohbic and /,
,a Light Is tho burden luyo lays on;
Content and peace brings luVe anl Joy
y What mair hae queens upon throne "
Then let us carefully weigh our cou
Q, ment on the hired girls. They al
or the most abused, hardest driven al
ly poorest paid class OF people among Il
II And yet, who is more deserving tha
,s, they? In some families they n
nd treated as members, while In othe
lie they are allowed to be made the SUI
Is, jects Of slinGs nnl abuse from eve
sit little brat down to the cradle. l.
er us respect them, for one is worth
W ten acre field full of such, who, moi
vn the less needy, consider honest t
k II disgrace and prefer to star7e
he the crochet hook rather than earn I
e honest living in Gods own appoint
'n way.